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Paracuellos': The Elimination of the Fifth Column' in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (Studies in Spanish History)
Julius Ruiz
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Description for Paracuellos': The Elimination of the Fifth Column' in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (Studies in Spanish History)
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWP. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This book examines the most polemical atrocity of the Spanish civil war: The massacre of 2,500 political prisoners by Republican security forces in the villages of Paracuellos and Torrejon de Ardoz near Madrid in November/December 1936. The atrocity took place while Santiago Carrillo -- later Communist Party leader in the 1970s -- was responsible for public order. Although Carrillo played a key role in the transition to democracy after Franco's death in 1975, he passed away at the age of 97 in 2012 still denying any involvement in 'Paracuellos' (the generic term for the massacres). The issue of Carrillo's responsibility ... Read more
This book examines the most polemical atrocity of the Spanish civil war: The massacre of 2,500 political prisoners by Republican security forces in the villages of Paracuellos and Torrejon de Ardoz near Madrid in November/December 1936. The atrocity took place while Santiago Carrillo -- later Communist Party leader in the 1970s -- was responsible for public order. Although Carrillo played a key role in the transition to democracy after Franco's death in 1975, he passed away at the age of 97 in 2012 still denying any involvement in 'Paracuellos' (the generic term for the massacres). The issue of Carrillo's responsibility ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
428g
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845197889
SKU
V9781845197889
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About Julius Ruiz
Dr Julius Ruiz is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written widely on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. His previous books, published in English and Spanish, are Francos Justice: Repression in Madrid after the Spanish Civil War (OUP, 2005) and The Red Terror and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid ... Read more
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